Art works and cultural products are circulating all over the globe at an increasing rate, helping to form young people’s ever-more internationalised tastes and repertoires. Hence the TV series Game of Thrones, which broke all audience records, the 2010 South African football anthem Waka Waqua ...

Since the 1960s, one of the major transformations in the professional sphere has been the increasing proportion of women in work, and the cultural professions are no exception: the proportion of women in the cultural professions has risen from 39% to 43% between 1991 and 2013. Almost all the m...

To what does the term "culture" refer in the French imagination, what spontaneous ideas are associated with it and with which registers are they associated? To find out, and as part of the latest 10-yearly survey into cultural practices in France (which has been carried out by the Ministry of ...

The French are divided on the issue of cultural inequalities in our country: more than half of them consider the situation to be acute and almost as many consider that inequalities have increased overall over the last 30 years (14% think that they have increased strongly and 34% think that the...

France's 25,000 professional photographers have, over the last 15 years, been facing considerable changes related to new digital technology, which have redefined the practices of the entire profession. The changing ways in which photography is created, produced and disseminated have resulted i...

How do cultural businesses survive when their original creator or manager leaves? Just as in other economic sectors, in the cultural sectors the issue of transferral is usually only dealt with at the point where the manager quits their role. Transfers are rarely anticipated, ill prepared-for a...

What is a collector? Although the French term collectionneur was first officially recorded in the dictionary in 1789*, its definition covers a range of different practices: for some, the main emphasis is on an item's subjective value, whilst others focus more closely on the accumulation and se...

What is a collector? Although the French term collectionneur was first officially recorded in the dictionary in 1789*, its definition covers a range of different practices: for some, the main emphasis is on an item's subjective value, whilst others focus more closely on the accumulation and se...

Éléments de comparaison 1981-2008

Olivier Donnat and Angèle Christin

2014

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The French Ministry of Culture and Communication and the US National Endowment of the Arts regularly conduct national surveys (Pratiques culturelles des Français and Public Participation for the Arts) to track changing behaviour in the general population in the fields of culture and media.A...

Elements of comparison, 1981-2008

Olivier Donnat and Angèle Christin

2014

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A comparison of the results of these two surveys, which have been published in roughly similar periods since the early 1980s, gives a comparative study of the level of dissemination of cultural practices and their respective public profiles which spans almost three decades.In the early 1980...